Chris’s research into future cities has focussed on sustainability, resilience, liveability and smartness, and has resulted in a suite of methodologies to support a new Theory of Change for infrastructure and urban systems. He led the Urban Futures consortium yielding a methodology to test the resilience of a city system intervention, and also led the Liveable Cities programme grant, exploring future cities in relation to individual, societal and planetary wellbeing. He chaired the ICE’s Research, Development & Innovation Panel from 2010-2020 and was a member of the Lead Expert Group of the UK Government Foresight Future of Cities project.